A Much-Mourned Loss.
Chicago Matron—^What a good girl you seem to have!
Omaha Matron—Yes, she is an excellent one. Don't you have good girls in Chicago? • I had one once who was just perfect, and I despair of ever finding as good a one again. How did yon happen to lose her? Oh, she was a little weakminded and ran off with my first husband.
Maggie (to her stepfather, who is very popular with children) : "I wish you had been here when our other papa was alive. You would have liked each other so much."
Photographer (fussily) : " Toots, toots I Look at an object— look at me?" Subject (slightly on): " Weel, ye're richt. Whin I look at ye, ye are an object!" A teacher in a Board school recently electrified her pupils, who were annoying her with questions, by saying, "Children, I am engaged." Noticing the general look of astonishment, she added, " But not to any fool of a man!"and the astonishment died away.
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Thames Star, Volume XIX, Issue 5656, 14 March 1887, Page 1
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